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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 1h

From Parth Kothekar's M.C. Escher-inspired series of papercuts

www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/10/part...

a hand holding a trippy white paper cut to distort perspective

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 21h

I need people not from Portland to understand that a majority of the escalations happening here are the direct result of the far right grifting machine. They are another arm of the fascist regime and have been manufacturing content and spreading lies to manufacture consent. It's as simple as that.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 19h

I don't remember what year a portion was set aside for Newberry Volcano Nat. Mon, but I do know they excluded areas from it that were expected to be most promising for geothermal development.

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 23h

Despite the name Mazama, the project is located near Newberry Volcano. ⚒️ www.opb.org/article/2025...

Oregon is digging deep to tap into an uncommon renewable energy source — Super Hot Rocks

Mazama Energy along with its partners are hoping to tap into an uncommon energy source that could help Oregon and the rest of the region meet its renewable energy goals — Super Hot Rocks.

www.opb.org

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joan @joanbybike.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the news from Portland you’ve all been waiting for: the emergency naked bike ride will be Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30pm

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“Tomb” Swanson @swansontea.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Nobel announcement week, and anyone with Trump’s phone number could do something really, really funny on Friday morning.

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Nigel Auchterlounie @n-auchterlounie.bsky.social · 2d

"IT ABSOLUTELY WILL STOP!!!"

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Rockom Sockom NoBots @rockom.bsky.social · 2d

Portland Oregon Antifa

I'd like to humbly suggest we use "Grab 'em by the Couch" as our rallying cry.

It's a triple entendre!

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 2d

I've never before seen a photo that shows so clearly Long Valley *is* a caldera! ⚒️

Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · 2d

We all need a little caldera in our life, right?

Long valley caldera from plane window looking north. Crowley lake at bottom of pic. Caldera rim highlight by cumulus clouds popping up over the topographic high. Mono Lake is in the distant top left.

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Mr. Bea Arthur, Dead Inside™️ @steamymac.bsky.social · 5d

I love that happiness is so elusive, but you can find disappointment absolutely anywhere.

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Ryan Haas @ryanjhaas.bsky.social · 3d

Federal officers gassed a crowd of hundreds of protesters today outside the ICE facility in Portland.

Federal agents fire tear gas, make multiple arrests during protest outside Portland ICE facility

Hundreds of protesters marched to facility from nearby Elizabeth Carruthers Park in Southwest Portland.

www.opb.org

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Deanna Kreisel 🌱 @doctorwaffle.substack.com · 6d

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins:
Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright
(Not sure if I spelled that right)
What immortal hand or eye
Could fashion such a stripy guy?
What the hammer that hath hewn it
Into such a chonky unit?
Did who made the lamb make thee,
Or an external franchisee?

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 5d

Eight years ago, I published my grand unified theory as to why time itself is dilated and distorted under Trump's rule.

a cartoon in which a scientist explains that Trump's brain is a dense vortex of narcissism, creating a black hole, and we are all trapped in the event horizon

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Lockwood DeWitt @lockwooddewitt.bsky.social · 4d

That was a movie I really *wanted* to like. Unfortunately, it's a mess, beginning to end.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 4d

America is currently a giant experiment to see how long we can keep stuffing a year's worth of news and outrage into every single day before everyone's heads explode

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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 5d

Thirty years ago Monday, astronomers announced the first planet around a Sunlike star. Since then they have cataloged more than 6,000 alien worlds.

I asked a bunch of astronomers what their favorite exoplanet is, and wrote about it for @nature.com. What's yours?

🧪 #astronomy